Abu Ayyub al-Masri Captured in Iraq

[Abu Buckwheat]

Good catch!

AQI is going down slowly but definately going down ... now if only we can keep the Shia and Sunnah from killing each other!

[Rank amateur]

From CNN:

Skeptical of the reports at first, the U.S. military is now certain that Abu Ayyub al-Masri -- the head of al Qaeda in Iraq -- has not been captured, a senior U.S. military official told CNN.

[Abu Buckwheat]

In. Frick'n. Credible. This had beeter have been an IO to smoke him out. Sometimes I get ahead of myself and actually believe MNF-I.

[Ron Humphrey]

In. Frick'n. Credible. This had beeter have been an IO to smoke him out. Sometimes I get ahead of myself and actually believe MNF-I.

MNF-I were the ones who said from moment one they could NOT confirm that it was true. Seems like that was a wise decision considering todays news.

[Rank amateur]

"Iraqi officials have reported his death three times, his capture twice and a mortal wounding once."

Maybe Marc can explain. I bet it has something to do with his symbolic effect within the Shia community.

[marct]

"Iraqi officials have reported his death three times, his capture twice and a mortal wounding once."

Maybe Marc can explain. I bet it has something to do with his symbolic effect within the Shia community.

More like wishful thinking I would guess .

[Vic Bout]

Two things I learned when dealing with both Afghani's and Iraqi's (mostly military types):
1) Never believe the first report
2) Combat math is skewed (i.e. "Well, Chief, we were on patrol in town last night and were ambushed by 25 ali-baba. We returned fire but they all escaped"....en realidad for my daily SITREP to higher we divide everything by 10 and come up two guys shooting at our IA patrol from a speeding vehicle